Yamaguchi University
| Yamaguchi University | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1815/1949 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Yamaguchi , Yamaguchi Prefecture |
| country | Japan |
| management | Masaaki Oka |
| Students | 10,780 (May 2009) |
| Employee | 2,218 (May 2009) |
| Website | www.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp |
The Yamaguchi University ( Jap. 山口大学 , Yamaguchi daigaku , short Yamadai ( 山大 )) is a state university in Japan . The main campus is located in Yamaguchi in Yamaguchi Prefecture .
history
The origin of the university was the private school Yamaguchi-Kōdō ( 山口 講堂 , dt. "The Auditorium Yamaguchi"), which was founded in 1815 by Ueda Hōyō ( 上 田 鳳陽 , 1769-1853). It became a Han school of Chōshū in 1863 and was renamed Yamaguchi-Meirinkan ( 山口 明倫 館 ). In 1870 it became the Yamaguchi Prefectural Middle School and in 1886 the Yamaguchi State Higher Middle School, the school with one of the then seven preparatory courses for the Imperial University . In 1894 this was renamed the Yamaguchi High School ( 山口 高等学校 , Yamaguchi kōtō gakkō ).
In February 1905 the same was changed to the Yamaguchi Higher Commercial School ( 山口 高等 商業 学校 , Yamaguchi kōtō shōgyō gakkō ), the third state higher commercial school (or commercial college, Japanese kōtō shōgyō gakkō ) after Tokyo (1887) and Kobe (1902). The purpose of the school was to educate the merchants who might trade with Manchuria and Korea. In 1944 it was renamed the Yamaguchi Business School ( 山口 経 済 専 門 学校 , Yamaguchi keizai semmon gakkō ).
In 1949, Yamaguchi University was founded by merging the six technical schools. The six were the Yamaguchi Business School, the (rebuilt) Yamaguchi High School ( （再 興） 山口 高等学校 , (Saikō) Yamaguchi kōtō gakkō , founded in 1919), the Yamaguchi Normal School ( 山口 師範学校 , Yamaguchi shihan gakkō , founded 1874), the youth -Normal School Yamaguchi ( 山口 青年 師範学校 , Yamaguchi his shihan gakkō in Hōfu , founded in 1920), the Ube Technical Center ( 宇 部 工業 専 門 学校 , Ube kōgyō semmon gakkō in Ube , founded 1939) and the Prefecture Veterinary and Animal Husbandry School 獣 獣 医畜産 専 門 学校 , Yamaguchi jūi chikusan semmon gakkō in Shimonoseki , founded in 1885). In 1964, the former Prefectural Medical College ( 山口 県 立 医科大学 , Yamaguchi-kenritsu ika daigaku in Ube, founded in 1944) became the Faculty of Medicine. In 1966, today's Yoshida campus was reopened and in 1973 all faculties except two (medicine and engineering) moved into the campus.
Faculties
- Yoshida Campus (in Yoshida, Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, 34 ° 8 ′ 50.1 ″ N , 131 ° 28 ′ 6.6 ″ E, ):
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Agricultural Science
- Tokiwa Campus (in Tokiwadai, Ube , Yamaguchi Prefecture, 33 ° 57 ′ 22.2 ″ N , 131 ° 16 ′ 20.1 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Engineering
- Kogushi Campus (in Minamikogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, 33 ° 57 ′ 30.3 ″ N , 131 ° 14 ′ 55.7 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Medicine
Student song
The Faculty of Economics has one of the oldest Japanese student songs called Hana naki yama ( 花 な き 山 , English: "The hill without a blossom"). In 1899 the professor Sassa Masakazu ( 佐 々 政 一 , pseudonym: 佐 々 醒 雪 , Sassa Seisetsu , 1872-1917) composed the song for the students of the Yamaguchi high school. The song was inherited from the Yamaguchi Higher Commercial School (the predecessor of the Faculty of Economics).
The text says something like:
- (1) Our school is behind a hill with no cherry blossoms , in the country next to the small river with no moonlight on the water surface. Dormmates, however, let's get together!
- (The 2nd verse sings of wild cherry blossom and changeable hearts in spring.)
- (The 3rd verse sings about the moonlight and the drunkards in autumn.)
- (4) Mount Hōben ( 鳳 翩 山 , about 730 m high) may not be that high and the Fushino River ( 椹 野 川 ) may not be that wide, they last forever; so may our friendship be.
See also
Web links
- Official website (Japanese and English)
- Introduction to Yamaguchi University (German and Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/english/about/president/profile.html
- ↑ a b 山口 大学 要 覧: 教職員 数 ・ 学生 数 ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Number of staff and students), PDF in Japanese and English: Undergraduate 8,967, Post-Graduate 1,676 + 137, Research Staff 1,037, Other Staff 1,181. Retrieved January 30, 2010.
